Running IIS On Win XP Home

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I am sure this has been asked many times. But I haven't a clue where to find
this information. I understand that Win XP Home does not support IIS. I have
heard of a workaround but frankly I am dubious about that approach. I am
trying to learn VS.NET and eventually plan on doing so web development with
that package.

My question is this: Is there an alternative to IIS that I can use with XP
Home and Visual Studio.NET for this purpose. Upgrading to Win XP Pro is not
an option for me at this time (I wish it were).

If there is an alternative, how does one go about getting it and how does
one go about using it with VS.NET?

Thanks in advance and again, sorry about this type of newbie question but I
am at a loss at this point.
 
There's a test web server available called Cassini. I haven't used it
myself, but it's supposed to enable you to work with ASP.Net. I doubt VS.Net
will play nicely with it, as it's not designed for Cassini, but with some
trial and error you may be able to come up with a way of getting the two to
play nicely together. It sure does beat trying to get IIS to work with XP
Home and has far less implications on your OS's stability.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
Forgot to mention, Cassini is available at:
http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=6&tabid=41

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

Mark Fitzpatrick said:
There's a test web server available called Cassini. I haven't used it
myself, but it's supposed to enable you to work with ASP.Net. I doubt
VS.Net will play nicely with it, as it's not designed for Cassini, but
with some trial and error you may be able to come up with a way of getting
the two to play nicely together. It sure does beat trying to get IIS to
work with XP Home and has far less implications on your OS's stability.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Thanks for responding Mark. I will look into cassini and see what it is all
about. I fear however that with my limited knowledge of VS.NEt and web
development that the only way this is going to work for me is to buy a copy
of Win XP Pro.
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Carl
Trying to make sense of it all


Mark Fitzpatrick said:
There's a test web server available called Cassini. I haven't used it
myself, but it's supposed to enable you to work with ASP.Net. I doubt VS.Net
will play nicely with it, as it's not designed for Cassini, but with some
trial and error you may be able to come up with a way of getting the two to
play nicely together. It sure does beat trying to get IIS to work with XP
Home and has far less implications on your OS's stability.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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try mono's xsp server

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Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

Carl said:
Thanks for responding Mark. I will look into cassini and see what it is
all
about. I fear however that with my limited knowledge of VS.NEt and web
development that the only way this is going to work for me is to buy a
copy
of Win XP Pro.
Click to expand...
 
Mark,

I have only read in this that using the Cassini for real ASPNET development
with VSNet is almost impossible. A regular poster to this newsgroup Nick has
tried it very often (he is very keen in this kind of things). He told he
never succeeded and found every time an other hurdle to take.

Just to inform you

Cor
 
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